318 The soul necessarily living .,

them : for they still continue united, not-*withstanding any indisposition which can berectified. And therefore the soul is not atliberty to act by itself, before that final inep~titnde or disorder happens. We need notwonder why the foul doth not act by itself#When the body is not fit to be actuated by it:it hath no liberty but what is indulged it, byth t Being who appointed this union ; and ^it had such a liberty, the union Would be i^vain. The soul would always chuse to a#by itself, retiring from the body while it wet eindisposed, that it might enjoy a separate an^Unpainful state of existence. And since th®body, in its present constitution, must alwaysgive the foul some uneasiness, less or more;as also since, when best disposed, it must rS*tard its application to many objects ; th econsequence would be, that it would neveschuse to actuate it, or to act by it, morethan a man at liberty would chuse to wa^with setters on his legs. A little taste °separate existence would put men upon &expedients of dissolving the union violently*Thus such a liberty would have been ab'un"dantly inconsistent with the design of un lt:ing them together. It is rather wisely in2 stitutedj